Senior Engineering Manager - Qe Job in Vmware

Job Description

Company

VMware's elite, award-winning R&D team is comprised of thousands of world-class computer scientists and software engineers that are transforming computing through virtualization. At VMware, our engineers voice their creative ideas and watch them become initiatives, participate in exciting short-term and long-term products on the VMware roadmap. Our engineers continue to learn and grow by working with top professionals from around the world and recent graduates of top universities and by taking advantage of our extensive internal training opportunities and generous external education assistance program. VMware has R&D offices around world including Chennai, India.

Group Description (VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud)

For the second year, VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud leads the WAN Edge Infrastructure market, continuing to be placed furthest in Completeness of Vision and highest in Ability to Execute. VeloCloud, now part of VMware is the only complete solution with all the key elements of a CloudDelivered WAN. VeloCloud dramatically simplifies the WAN by delivering virtualized services from the cloud to branch offices and mobile users everywhere. VeloCloud services deliver enterprise grade performance, visibility and control over both Internet and private networks, combining the economy of the Internet with the flexibility of the cloud. More information is available at
Do you love to make new things, design and develop technologies that will be used by legions of people? Do you want to learn about new groundbreaking networking and cloud technologies in a hands-on, fun and exhilarating environment? Then come join us. We pay as much attention to building a culture of fast learning in a fun and trustworthy environment as we do to building our products.
Learn Fast, Trust each other, Have Fun. That embodies the culture of VeloCloud by VMware.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Network test engineers responsible for qualifying a release

• Closely work with various stakeholders to understand the test requirements and formulate a test strategy to thoroughly test all aspects

• Get to 100% Automation coverage with the ability to do full release qualification in a week enabling quicker release of product features and maintenance patches

• Identify test improvements based on field issues and quickly get them into full validation cycle

• Data driven approach to track release progress, effort scoping and to identify areas of improvements

• Hands on engagement reviewing test plans, defining test strategy and triaging of defects with engineers across Development and Testing

• Working with vendors to outsource some aspects of Testing and Automation

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience testing networking products with at least 3+ years of experience in managing and growing an Automation driven test team

• Good understanding of Networking concepts and working experience in L2 Switching, L3 Routing, BGP, OSPF, NAT, Firewalls, IPSEC...

• Experience doing Automation of TCs and good understanding of Automation frameworks

• Rich Experience in driving various aspects of testing - Regression, System, Scale, Performance, Interoperability

• Familiarity with well-known hypervisor's like ESXi, KVM, exposure to public cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail.

• Deep understanding of full product life cycle, software development methods (both Agile and Waterfall), and development and build environments

• Ability to organize, delegate, and effectively deliver to large and complex programs

• Conflict resolution skills including the ability to bridge style differences

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Strong work ethic and commitment to integrity.

• Able to demonstrate effective teamwork both within the immediate team and across teams.

• Self-driven, self-motivated individual with ability to multi-task

• BS/BE in CS or EE, MS strongly preferred

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